Well, we made it to the final week! After five weeks of staging in the rehearsal room we moved onto the Musical Arts Center stage on Thursday. This hall seats about 1,500 and is often compared to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. We had a two hour rehearsal with orchestra on stage for the first time. It was such an experience! It is very difficult to hear the orchestra while singing on stage. I thought it would be completely the opposite. I couldn't believe how quickly my voice carried out into a hall that big. It was really exciting and gave me such a great boost of confidence. The maestro was happy with me and he even told me I had helped him keep it together with the orchestra. That was a really nice compliment!
This weekend we started piano tech rehearsals. These rehearsals aren't really for us, they are more for the stage technicalities. The production staff sets the lights, works through scene shifts, and sets props. This all gets set into place for our dress rehearsal week that starts tomorrow! It is so exciting to see the production come together. Everything comes alive with costumes, set, and lighting.
My performances will be on February 26th and March 4th. The Jacobs School of Music will be streaming the February 26th performance live on their website: http://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive/streaming/ It would be great to have support from you all!
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